Shamil Basayev

Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (14 January 1965-10 July 2006), also known as Abdallah Shamil Abu Idris al-Bassi, was a warlord of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

Biography
Basayev was born in Dyshne-Vedeno in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR of the Soviet Union in 1965, and served in the Russian Army during the Georgian-Abkhazian War. He later became a soldier of the Mujahideen, fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Chechen Wars. During the latter, he committed many atrocities as a Chechen rebel commander, including the Beslan crisis, where he held many students at a Beslan school hostage and killed many of them. He became one of the most-wanted men in Russia for his Islamic insurgency, which surpassed the ideals of Chechen nationalism.

Death
Thee cars and two KAMAZ tractor-trailer trucks stopped at Ali Yurt to deliver an arms shipment at an unfinished estate where Basayev chose to meet. While Basayev was expecting a mine, it blew up, killing him.